File color coding does not work on external or SATA drives

[OMedicks]

When viewing panels of external or even an internal SATA drive, file color coding does not work. All file types have the same color.
I am working on Manjaro Linux X86_64, kernel 5.10.70-1, KDE Plasma 5.22.5

This is the output of mc -V
GNU Midnight Commander 4.8.27
Built with GLib 2.68.3
Built with S-Lang 2.3.2 with terminfo database
With builtin Editor
With subshell support as default
With support for background operations
With mouse support on xterm and Linux console
With support for X11 events
With internationalization support
With multiple codepages support
With ext2fs attributes support
Virtual File Systems:

cpiofs, tarfs, sfs, extfs, ftpfs, sftpfs, fish, smbfs

Data types:

char: 8; int: 32; long: 64; void *: 64; size_t: 64; off_t: 64;

[OMedicks]

attached file mc_Documents is a screen shot of my home/Documents directory, where color coding works.
Attached file mc_screen1 is from a backup USB disk, where color coding does not work

[andrew_b]

What is file system on your USB disk?

Please show the output of ls -l.

[andrew_b]

ping?

[andrew_b]

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